Essays from The Batchelor, in Prose and Verse by the Authors of the Epistle to Gorges Edmond Howard, Esq. In Two Volumes. ...Dublin, printed; London, reprinted, for T. Becket, 1773 |
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... questions about the manners , or police of the countries they had vifited , their answers . were larded with fo many pretty French and Italian words , that they were quite unintel- ligible . I was fometimes malicious enough to puzzle ...
... questions about the manners , or police of the countries they had vifited , their answers . were larded with fo many pretty French and Italian words , that they were quite unintel- ligible . I was fometimes malicious enough to puzzle ...
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... question convey ? A free and generous people will esteem a man according to his intrinsic merit , and are not to be dazzled by the false and me- retricious glare of rank and fortune . Stuck round with titles , or hung round with strings ...
... question convey ? A free and generous people will esteem a man according to his intrinsic merit , and are not to be dazzled by the false and me- retricious glare of rank and fortune . Stuck round with titles , or hung round with strings ...
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... question under confideration , without the leaft perfonality or invective against the Prime Serjeant , the At- torney General , or any friend of the prefent adminiftration . JP , Efq . late S - r , came out of the church at half an hour ...
... question under confideration , without the leaft perfonality or invective against the Prime Serjeant , the At- torney General , or any friend of the prefent adminiftration . JP , Efq . late S - r , came out of the church at half an hour ...
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... question . If Junius's letters were examined by that teft , the beauties of expreffion would vanish at once , and leave him few admirers or even the readers ; whilst that rich vein of thought , that poignant wit so peculiar to Swift ...
... question . If Junius's letters were examined by that teft , the beauties of expreffion would vanish at once , and leave him few admirers or even the readers ; whilst that rich vein of thought , that poignant wit so peculiar to Swift ...
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... question , but he would oblige the world with as ufeful and valuable a treatise to prove the devouring of potatoes contrary both to reafon and feripture . - As our reverend teachers are always ready , to promote the good of their flocks ...
... question , but he would oblige the world with as ufeful and valuable a treatise to prove the devouring of potatoes contrary both to reafon and feripture . - As our reverend teachers are always ready , to promote the good of their flocks ...
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Essays from The Batchelor, in Prose and Verse by the Authors of the Epistle ... Vista completa - 1773 |
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Página 4 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 116 - You take a hundred leaders of each party, you dispose them into couples of such whose heads are nearest of a size; then let two nice operators saw off the occiput of each couple at the same time, in such a manner that the brain may be equally divided.
Página 56 - Nor ease, nor peace, that heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe; But, turning, trembles too.
Página 116 - When parties in a state are violent, he offered a wonderful contrivance to reconcile them. The method is this. You take a hundred leaders of each party, you dispose them into couples of such whose heads are nearest of a size ; then let two nice operators saw...
Página 77 - em; As with a moral view design'd To cure the vices of mankind: His vein, ironically grave, Expos'd the fool, and lash'd the knave: To steal a hint was never known, But what he writ was all his own.
Página 57 - Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which , like the needle true , Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. Far as diftrefs the foul can wound, ' Tis pain in each degree : ?Tis blifs but to a certain bound; Beyond, is agony.
Página 57 - The eye fhall then difown: The heart that melts for others woe, Shall then fcarce feel its own. The wounds which now each moment bleed, Each moment then fhall clofe, And tranquil days fhall ftill fucceed To nights of calm repofe.
Página 58 - So may the glow-worm's glimm'ring light Thy tiny footfteps lead To fome new region of delight, Unknown to mortal tread. And be thy acorn goblet fill'd With heav'n's ambrofial dew ; From fweeteft, frefheft flow'rs diftilPd, That fhed frefh fweets for you.
Página 56 - I've been weary : For once I'll seek my wish to gain Of Oberon, the fairy. Sweet airy being, wanton sprite, Who lurk'st in woods unseen ; And oft by Cynthia's silver light, Trip'st gaily o'er the green ; If e'er thy pitying heart was moved, As ancient stories tell ; And for th...
Página 70 - Rais'd by the breath of popular acclaim, They mounted to the pinnacle of Fame ; There the weak brain, made giddy with the height, Spurr'd on the rival chiefs to mortal fight.